I am lucky to have a close contact with access to a lot of AFL statistics (the same data set the clubs generally have available to them ). I asked him to do some digging on the Dees season, in particular looking for anything that would prove useful in helping us all understand where things have g...

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Interesting info, most not surprising. The only point I'd make is that if a defender makes a mistake it's more likely to result in the opposition scoring purely because of where they play

I am lucky to have a close contact with access to a lot of AFL statistics (the same data set the clubs generally have available to them ). I asked him to do some digging on the Dees season, in particular looking for anything that would prove useful in helping us all understand where things have g...

demonland.com

Interesting info, most not surprising. The only point I'd make is that if a defender makes a mistake it's more likely to result in the opposition scoring purely because of where they play

Brownlow Medallist

2017-2017 MFC had a much better record against the top 8 without Jesse than with him. His style of play regressed from the pack busting contested marking animal he was in 2015 to more of a link up player who was better the further up the ground he played. Club certainly took a gamble on Weid being a lot better this year and I’ve got no qualms admitting Hogan would have likely been of more use than Weid in 2019.

HOWEVER

The club (and those of us who had seen him out) knew Hogan didn’t really give two s**ts about footy, and was injury prone before the serious foot issues flared up last year. You can carry an injury prone player and you can carry a talented player who doesn’t really care but you can’t carry an injury prone CHF who isn’t going to be setting elite standards off the field.

Club moved him on, sure the Weid gamble backfired hard but I think it’s pretty hard Hogan would have made much difference this year anyway considering how s**t we’ve been.

Angel of the Abyss

2017-2017 MFC had a much better record against the top 8 without Jesse than with him. His style of play regressed from the pack busting contested marking animal he was in 2015 to more of a link up player who was better the further up the ground he played. Club certainly took a gamble on Weid being a lot better this year and I’ve got no qualms admitting Hogan would have likely been of more use than Weid in 2019.

HOWEVER

The club (and those of us who had seen him out) knew Hogan didn’t really give two s**ts about footy, and was injury prone before the serious foot issues flared up last year. You can carry an injury prone player and you can carry a talented player who doesn’t really care but you can’t carry an injury prone CHF who isn’t going to be setting elite standards off the field.

Club moved him on, sure the Weid gamble backfired hard but I think it’s pretty hard Hogan would have made much difference this year anyway considering how s**t we’ve been.

Brownlow Medallist

2017-2017 MFC had a much better record against the top 8 without Jesse than with him. His style of play regressed from the pack busting contested marking animal he was in 2015 to more of a link up player who was better the further up the ground he played. Club certainly took a gamble on Weid being a lot better this year and I’ve got no qualms admitting Hogan would have likely been of more use than Weid in 2019.

HOWEVER

The club (and those of us who had seen him out) knew Hogan didn’t really give two s**ts about footy, and was injury prone before the serious foot issues flared up last year. You can carry an injury prone player and you can carry a talented player who doesn’t really care but you can’t carry an injury prone CHF who isn’t going to be setting elite standards off the field.

Club moved him on, sure the Weid gamble backfired hard but I think it’s pretty hard Hogan would have made much difference this year anyway considering how s**t we’ve been.

A lot of people on here were saying that we would be better off without him. You're right that he was always going and I'm glad the club dealt quickly with him, but there's nothing wrong with thinking we'd have finished much higher on the ladder if he'd stayed or if we'd been better coached over the summer to compensate for losing him. We played essentially the same game plan in 2019 as 2018 in spite of losing Hogan and the advent of 6-6-6.

Norm Smith Medallist

Dangerfield left the crows and they were in a GF 24 months later.
Hawthorn lost Franklin and kept winning GF's.
Dustin Martin finally reached his potential and Richmond have been a powerhouse club ever since, winning a GF

All are examples of stars staying or leaving and having varying impacts on their club. it's ridiculous to pin the failures of our club this year on the departure of Hogan.

Norm Smith Medallist

Dangerfield left the crows and they were in a GF 24 months later.
Hawthorn lost Franklin and kept winning GF's.
Dustin Martin finally reached his potential and Richmond have been a powerhouse club ever since, winning a GF

All are examples of stars staying or leaving and having varying impacts on their club. it's ridiculous to pin the failures of our club this year on the departure of Hogan.

Club Legend

The whole Hogan situation isn’t exactly binary and I have sympathy for most perspectives on it. However, it has been done to death and is up there with Israel Folau and crowd booing as the most boring topics that don’t really require hot take 477742563245621 on them.

If you read the Op on McDonald it points out that lot of his big bags last year were kicked against average to poor opponents (Patrick Ambrose, Jack Carlisle, Rory Thompson, Sam Rowe, Myles Poholke, Jason Johannisen, Matt Scharenberg, Dougal Howard, Jackson Trengove, Josh Jenkins, Tom Barrass, Lachlan Keefe, James Frawley).

I will reserve judgement on TMac for another 12 months but if he has a bad year in 2020 then maybe he just isn't the KPF we thought he could be as he obviously struggles against teams good number 1 defenders

All Australian

If you read the Op on McDonald it points out that lot of his big bags last year were kicked against average to poor opponents (Patrick Ambrose, Jack Carlisle, Rory Thompson, Sam Rowe, Myles Poholke, Jason Johannisen, Matt Scharenberg, Dougal Howard, Jackson Trengove, Josh Jenkins, Tom Barrass, Lachlan Keefe, James Frawley).

I will reserve judgement on TMac for another 12 months but if he has a bad year in 2020 then maybe he just isn't the KPF we thought he could be as he obviously struggles against teams good number 1 defenders

All Australian

The whole Hogan situation isn’t exactly binary and I have sympathy for most perspectives on it. However, it has been done to death and is up there with Israel Folau and crowd booing as the most boring topics that don’t really require hot take 477742563245621 on them.

The stats don’t lie the club desperately needs an a grade key forward and on all available evidence tmac and weid aren’t capable of filling that roll, tmac is a good second banana while the jury is still very much out on weid.

Trading Hogan is not nearly the biggest issue, the big issue is how and why the coaches and list managers got their evaluation so horribly wrong and then compounded the problem by playing Fritsch in defence for so long, and why after creating such a huge hole they choose to do nothing to rectify the problem when it was clear 12 months ago that tmac and weid had no history of even playing against let alone beating quality no 1 key defenders.

Lots of excuses have been made for both tmac and weid ie s**t mid field poor disposal etc, but Fritsch had no problem kicking goals or taking marks when he was belatedly move forward. The club hoped they could fill the void left by Hogan with a converted CHB and a bloke with 3 good games to his name and that’s ******* incompetent and the above stats indicated that, that’s why it’s being discussed again.

Less to do with Hogan more to do with the club totally ******* last off season

Club Legend

The stats don’t lie the club desperately needs an a grade key forward and on all available evidence tmac and weid aren’t capable of filling that roll, tmac is a good second banana while the jury is still very much out on weid.

Trading Hogan is not nearly the biggest issue, the big issue is how and why the coaches and list managers got their evaluation so horribly wrong and then compounded the problem by playing Fritsch in defence for so long, and why after creating such a huge hole they choose to do nothing to rectify the problem when it was clear 12 months ago that tmac and weid had no history of even playing against let alone beating quality no 1 key defenders.

Lots of excuses have been made for both tmac and weid ie s**t mid field poor disposal etc, but Fritsch had no problem kicking goals or taking marks when he was belatedly move forward. The club hoped they could fill the void left by Hogan with a converted CHB and a bloke with 3 good games to his name and that’s ******* incompetent and the above stats indicated that, that’s why it’s being discussed again.

Less to do with Hogan more to do with the club totally ******* last off season

He has a point though. Generally it's spearheaded by posters like Reek and then the group think mentality kicks into gear and all the sheep follow suit. I remember questioning Goodwin's coaching ability in his first year and being howled down by the usual suspects.